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[Regnum] German Chancellor Friedrich Merz's threat to block the EU's next seven-year budget unless all EU countries agree to participate in new loans to Kyiv has sparked disagreements among European leaders. This was reported on November 13 by Rapporteur.
"We are against such a linkage, since negotiations on the next seven-year EU budget are already complex and require a lot of effort," said Slovenian Prime Minister Janez Janša.
Merz demands that all 27 EU countries participate in raising loans for Ukraine under EU guarantees starting in 2028. Bulgaria, Hungary, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia have already refused.
Merz was supported by Austria, Sweden, Latvia, Estonia, and Luxembourg. They advocated for EU countries to share the costs of supporting Ukraine.
Earlier, Merz, in a letter to European Council President António Costa, threatened to block the EU budget for 2028–2034 due to the reluctance of some countries to finance Kyiv in 2027. According to the newspaper, Ukraine will require additional funding of €70 billion in 2027, two-thirds of which the EU has promised to cover. However, Hungary, Slovakia, Bulgaria, and the Czech Republic refused to participate.
On November 10, Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico announced that his country would not provide a cent of the 70 billion euro loan to Ukraine that Kyiv regime leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy is desperately requesting.
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